Christmas Home Decor Project

I picked up this frame on clearance at Joann's when I was there yesterday. I have seen some really cute projects done with frames so wanted to give it a try. Here is what I came up with. The frame size is 7" X 7".  I covered the mat on the inside of the frame with some patterned paper from DCWV Christmas stack that I got a few weeks ago also at Joann's.  Mat is 5 1/2" X 5 1/2. I just used my ATG gun to adhere the patterned paper to the mat. The tree was cut at 4" from the Lyrical Letters cartridge. I used some really dark green card stock from Core'denations. This paper has a gold glittery look to it. Because it was pretty thick card stock I did set my blade on 6 and pressure on high. I then used my Gypsy and the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to resize a triangle to fit the shape of the tree since it didn't have a shadow or any layers to it. I cut that out of some lighter olive green card stock.  The word Joy was cut out at 1 1/2" from the Winter Woodland cartridge. I ran the top red layer through my Xyron sticker maker and added some red Martha Stewart fine glitter to each letter. The shadow was cut from the olive green paper I used for the tree layer. To spruce up the tree and help it stand out more, I added some of the heat set rhinestones in a variety of colors. I think it looks like lights on a Christmas tree. The final touch was to add some ribbon along the bottom of the mat. The ribbon is also some I picked up at Joann's yesterday.

I apologize the photo isn't better. I had a hard time taking a picture of it without getting a reflection of some kind. I had to go with the best one I was able to get. I am still debating about adding something to the frame, either trying to stamp snowflakes on the frame, or emboss something with gold embossing powder or even adding some of that gold rub on stuff to jazz it up. Let me know what you think. Thanks for visiting.

Boys Birthday Card

A friend from work asked me if I could make a card for her to give to her nephew who is turning 11 in a week. Other than the fact that he likes blue I knew nothing about it so making this card was a little harder than I thought it would be. I finally settled on a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I stared with a white card base and added a blue mat that was cut at 4 1/8" X 5 3/8". I embossed the top half of the blue mat with the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder then added a strip of patterned paper cut at 4 1/8'' X 2 1/2". I add a piece of self adhesive orange twill ribbon where the two papers met to give it a more finished look. The tennis shoe I got from the Paisley cartridge. I cut the shoe and its layers at 2 1/2". The shoe comes with two little hearts that I didn't cut since this was for a boy. Instead I cut a small black start from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge. I added some black faux stitching to the white circle with the star. I pop dotted the shoe to the card. This image on Paisley actually cuts two shoes but I only used one. I added small triangles of the patterned paper to each upper corner of the blue mat just for some additional color and to tie the card together. I hope she likes the card.

Halloween Banner

Here is the Halloween banner that I finished up this past weekend. The battery in my camera finally charged and I was able to take some pictures this afternoon after work. I had a blast making it. Thelarger bats are some I picked up from Michael's. The witches hat was cut from the Mini Monsters at 3 1/4". The scallop for BOO was cut at 3 1/4" from the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge. The circle was cut at 2 3/4" from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge. The letters for the word BOO were cut at  2 3/4" from the Lyrical Letters Cartridge using the Jumbo creative feature. I then embossed them with some black embossing powder. The small bats are from the Wild Card cartridge and then glittered. I added some tulle behind the letters and used the Martha Stewart Spider Web border punch for the strip across the top of each pendant that was cut from Chipboard. The patterned paper is from the Recollections Paper pad that I bought last year. The trims along the top of the pendants are also from Michaels Recollections trim collection.

Halloween Card

Here is a card I made for several challenges. I used the October 31 cartridge for the window. I used my Gyspy to create this card. I started with the window image on my gypsy mat, and copied and pasted it. I then used the hide contour feature to hide all the cuts but the outside cuts to create a shadow of the window, then copied and pasted that and flipped it. I used a very small rectangle and stretched it and resized it to fit the window which I skewed. I welded both sides of the shadow I create to the rectangle. I then created a blackout image of the window with my Gyspy again using the hide contour feature and cut that from acetate. I cut the original image from black card stock and the welded card base from orange card stock. I also skewed the spider web from the October 31 cartridge and welded it to the window. This was difficult to cut with its fine thin lines. I added some black glitter to the web. I cut the spider from black card stock at  1 3/4" from the Lyrical Letters cartridge and again used some black glitter glue on it. The ghost was cut from cream colored card stock at 3" from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I cut the pumpkin at 1 3/4" from orange card stock also from the October 31 cartridge. I used some green ink to ink the stem portion of the cut and added some yellow card stock pieces behind the pumpkin for its eyes, nose and mouth and then used some yellow stickles on it to give is some sparkle. I attached the black window with foam tape and also the pumpkin. The spider web was glittered with some black glitter glue. I attached some clear acetate to the back of the black window and then attached the spider. The ghost was attached to the orange card base. I also stamped the card base in the upper right window with the word Boo using Staz On Ink and a Hero Arts stamp. This was a fun and challenging card to make. Thanks for visiting.

Jitterbuggin' Challenge

I made this card today for my first sketch challenge on Jitterbuggin' Challenge Blog. The recipe was you had to use pink and purple, you had to use a bug from a cricut cartridge, and you had to use a flower as well as follow the sketch provided. So here is what I came up with. I cut the worm from Create a Critter at 2 1/2". The circles were cut from George and Basic shapes at 3" and 3 1/3". Card base is light pink. The patterned paper is from a K & Company The Best of Brenda Walton paper pack that I picked up at Michaels. I used Prima flowers for the card. I added some small googly eyes to the worm and some Eucalyptus stickles to accent the green stripes on the worm. I have never made a card from a sketch so it was fun.

Circle Card

There was a challenge in the Gypsy Forum on the Cricut Message board for a project created using circles. The Cricut Cardz Challenge had a challenge to make a Spring project using, flowers, butterflies, or birds. So, I thought I would do both challenges with one card. Here is what I came up with.

The card base is from the Sentimental cartridge and cut at 5 1/2", the pink circle is from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge and cut at 5". I ran the pink circle through my Cuttlebug using the Sizzix trio dots folder. The flowers were cut from the Forever Young cartridge and cut at 1 1/2". I cut the shadow and both layers. The word Enjoy I welded with my Gypsy and is the font from A Child's Year. I used buttons for the flower centers and used Stickles to give the flowers some glitz. I cut a butterfly from Gypsy Wanderings at 1 1/4" and used the Cotton Candy Stickles to give the butterfly some sparkle. I then covered everything with Glossy Accents to further jazz it up.